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Jefferson, Thomas. "William Roscoe, Dec. 27, 1820." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress, edited by Roger Pooley. Penguin Classics, 2009, pt. 2.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Rich Boy." F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-1926, edited by James L. W. West, III. Library of America, 2022.

Bernard of Clairvaux. "Letter CVI: To Magister Henry Murdach." The Letters of Bernard Clairvaux, translated by Bruno Scott James. Liturgical Press, 2003.

Heraclitus. Quoted in Craylus, by Plato. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 402a.

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

“From John Adams to Horatio Gates, 23 March 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-04-02-0023.

Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

Swift, Jonathan. "Letter to a Young Clergyman Lately Entered into Holy Orders (1720)." A Modest Proposal and Other Writings, edited by Carole Fabricant. Penguin, 2009.